Morning Briefing

USCCB elects president, vice president; What do the USCCB elections mean?; Bishops overwhelmingly approve continuing liturgy translations -- Some of the headlines from NCR coverage of the fall meeting of the U.S. bishops' conference. Read all the stories here.

Melbourne, Australia -- The parliamentary commission studying clerical sexual abuse today filed a 678-page report, principally focused on the Catholic church. An Aussie NCR reader describes it as "a huge read but damning of the Church, its actions and its culture." NCR will post the report it is website later today. Until then, read two newspaper accounts:

• Victorian Parliamentary inquiry into child sex abuse prompts push to make abuse silence a crime
• Victims vindicated as church sex abuse inquiry delivers

Melbourne, Australia -- Catholic archdiocese actively protected a pedophile priest, a judge says.

St. Paul, Minn. -- Tribal authorities on the Rosebud Sioux reservation in South Dakota are opening a criminal investigation into alleged sexual abuse of several boys and a teenager by St. Paul-Minneapolis priest who was kept in ministry after he admitted to abuse on the reservation in the 1970s.

Hawaii Senate passes gay marriage bill

Sarah Palin is skeptical of the 'liberal' agenda promoted by Pope Francis

Tagaytay, Philippines -- LCWR seeks abandoned religious living in US

Kansas City, Mo. -- The Catholic diocese cannot be liable for the actions of a priest alleged to have sexually abused a boy away from church property, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. But also recommends Supreme Court review the case to clarify certain points of law.

Montreal, Canada -- Priest says he's been shunned, fired from part-time pastoral job for discussing sex abuse